About half of all science and engineering doctorate recipients who graduate from U.S. research-intensive institutions receive research funding during their graduate studies, according to an InfoBrief from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the NSF. The brief is based on a new data resource that links the IRIS-UMETRICS dataset (based on administrative data collected from IRIS member institutions) with the Survey of Earned Doctorates (an annual census of all people receiving a research doctorate from an accredited U.S institution conducted by NCSES).
The NCSES InfoBrief reported that uneven research funding rates were observed by field of study, demographic characteristics, level of debt, and source of graduate financial report. Men received higher rates of research funding compared to women, and in terms of racial and ethnic groups, Asian and White doctorate recipients had higher rates of grant funding than Hispanics and African Americans.
The brief can be found at https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23349.
One of the challenges of the data linkage was combining administrative data with survey data. A technical brief on the linkage is available at https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/ncses23215.